Poetry Bibliography of Maria Alexander

My poetry collection, Biting Midnight: A Feast of Darksome Verse, from Medium Rare Books is SOLD OUT.  This poetry collection is a double book with dark poet Christina Kiplinger-Johns . You can still find copies on ABE Books or Barnes & Noble, or even at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California.

Since 1999, my poetry has appeared in publications such as:

• Gothic.net
• The Swamp
• Feral Fiction
• Pegasus Dreaming
• Blood Rose Magazine
• Dreams & Nightmares
• The HWA Newsletter
• "Pain is God's Love" was recently reprinted in In the Arms of Words: Poems for the Tsunami Relief, a charity collection edited by Amy Ouzoonian for Foothills Publishing.

Awards

• Biting Midnight: A Feast of Darksome Verse made the Preliminary Ballot for the 2002 Bram Stoker Award in Poetry.
• In June 2004, I was one of five winners of the AOL Time-Warner poetry writing contest called "Time to Rhyme" with the poem "The Rage of Her Return."
• "Sighs from the Edda Over Iceland," which appeared in Dreams & Nightmares #67, received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #18.

Poems Currently Available Online

• Petite: This poem was published in La Gazette No. 5, Summer 2006 at Middlebury College. It's the first poem I've written in French.
• The Beast
• Walking House